beernesday

just a couple of pics from last night's launch of new belgium in vancouver:   besides the fact that they tried to poison me by feeding me "vegetarian" pizza that in fact contained a whole lotta meat sausage under the cheese, it was good times beerthirst brought in plenty of new belgium beers for us to quaff - i made it through three of the four flavours, but was too tipsy to have a fourth the pluot was a fruity little beer - very refreshing for summer (and paired nicely with the sausage pizza, lord help me) the heavenly feijoa was unpronounceable but a very nice belgian that paired well with the deep-fried spring rolls and prawns i was shovelling in my gob the ranger ipa is one of my faves and did not disappoint as my final beer of the night thanks beerthirst! and totally unrelatedly, 21 reasons you should drink more beer

yay for moon under water adding veggie and celiac options to their new menu!! NEW MENU AT MOON UNDER WATER! We've kept your favourites but added some tasty new ones - including more vegetarian and celiac friendly options. Take a sneak peek at the menu and make sure to stop by to try out something new: like our new and improved (vegan and wheat free) veggie burger or our new trio of homemade and delicious dips (perfect for sharing!)

veggie chipotle beer chili ?  yes please!

i wrote to the lovely people at beer brats to ask if they'd be making veggie beer sausages any time soon this is the response i got today: "We've had a lot of requests for a veggie option and will definitely have one in the works in the near future. Thanks and stay tuned..." so, good news for me and good thing i'm all about the delayed gratification!

here we are, several days into the inaugural Vancouver Craft Beer Week and i have yet to attend an official event. why, you might ask, why? tight pursestrings would be the easy answer.  there are so many fabulous sounding events, but each one comes with a price tag that until i win the lottery, i just can't justify paying. i would have been willing to part with cashola (or more realistically, creditcardola) for more events, but for my great fear of showing up at a beer and food pairing event that tries to feed me only meat.  you see, i'm a lacto-ovo-pescatarian (and no, i don't need medication for that) which as far as vegetarianism goes leaves me on the more flexible side of food restrictions (eggs, dairy, fish and seafood are all on my "eat it" list), which is good.... but not good enough to take the risk that some of the food on offer will fall into the above categories. so what? you may be asking, so what?  well, the menus for the craft beer and food...